Index:Samuel Johnson (1911).djvu

Title	Samuel Johnson
Editor	Alice Meynell & G. K. Chesterton
Year	1911
Publisher	Herbert and Daniel
Location	London
Source	djvu
Progress	Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
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- - - - - - i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x xi xii xiii xiv xv xvi xvii xviii xix xx 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 - - - - - -

CONTENTS
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Calendar of Principal Events iv
Introduction vii
The Plan of an English Dictionary 1
Lives of Eminent Persons 19
The Rambler 21
The Adventurer 71
Preface to Shakspeare 76
Thoughts on Agriculture 97
From a Review of "A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil" 101
The Idler 105
Rasselas 128
A Journey to the Western Islands 144
Lives of the English Poets:
From Cowley 150
„ Milton 156
„ Butler 164
„ Waller 164
„ Dryden 167
„ Smith 168
„ Addison 169
„ Prior 171
„ Congreve 172
„ Savage 173
„ Swift 174
„ Pope 178
„ Young 188
„ Gray 188
Letters:
To His Wife 190
To Mr. James Elphinston 191
To the Reverend Joseph Warton 193
To Miss Boothby 194
To James Boswell (on his way home from Corsica) 194
To the Rev. Dr. Dodd (on the eve of his execution for forgery) 196
To James Boswell 197
To Dr. Lawrence 198
To the Lord Chancellor, who had offered an advance of five hundred pounds 200
To the author of "Ossian" 201
Extracts from Mrs. Thrale's collection 202
To Mrs. Thrale 210
From the Diary 221
Poems: The Vanity of Human Wishes; in imitation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal 223
Prologue, spoken by Mr. Garrick, at the opening of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, 1747 239
Prologue, spoken by Mr. Garrick, April 5, 1750, before the Masque of Comus, acted at Drury-Lane Theatre for the Benefit of Milton's Grand-daughter 242
Prologue to the Comedy of the Good-Natured Man, 1769 244
Prologue to the Comedy of A Word to the Wise (by Hugh Kelly). Spoken by Mr. Hull 246
From Irene 247
Friendship: An Ode 248
Robert Levett 249
A Short Bibliography of Johnson's Works 251
Iconography 259
Appreciations and Testimonia 261

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